Since then the case has been held up by a clerk assigned to Bronx Surrogate Court Judge Nelida Malave-Gonzalez. The clerk is in the process of making sure the case is in proper order and all the forms have been completed — the first stage in the review process, according to an attorney familiar with the case.
Those administrators are appointed by a county’s judge to the Surrogate Court to take control of the estates of New Yorkers who die without a will, or without someone willing and qualified to execute their will. When city lawyers offered to settle, Foster’s eight siblings decided to set aside approximately $10,000 each from the total to pay for a family reunion and memorial service in Suffolk, Virginia. That’s the location the family settled on as a middle ground to accommodate all the relatives living throughout the country.“We really wanted to do that for him,” he said. “We were blessed with having him in our lives.